New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-15
NOT a DROP TO DRINK TO-DAY.
ALL THE BARRooMs TO BE TIGHTLY SHUT.
THE BOTTLE BROUGHT INTO ACTIVE USE LAST NIGHT
MAKING TrE LAW oDIoUs.

THE BOTTLE BROUGHT INTO ACTIVE USE LAST NIGHT
MAKING TtH LAW oDIoUs.
@WhatIl you have in a bottlew
1t In the barroom of the Hotel Brunswick that
this question put last night. The questioner was
O whiteaproned. whIteacketed, fower-bedecked bar
tender With mustachios SO finely waxed that they
looked like the hands of y clock indicating the hour
OF quar- before 8. The question directed to an
extremely fastidous of the who lives at the
Brunswick and who had come in to get q nghtcap."
IWant In a bottlep repeated the latter. IL
haven't used a bottle since was able to handle o
knlte and fork. What do you meanw
IL mean thai you'll need a bottle and something In
it yon wish to live through tomorrow comfortably
replied the jugger OF ice, glass and spirits. No
liquor sold on Sunday"
What Another blue-ribbon dayl Well, guess
I'll have to celebrate quoth the before the bar.
" Send pint bottle Of cocktails, quart OF primo
wbiskey. about the quantity of that brsDdy OF
mine, and-no, guess wine Is too soft tor Sunday
send those things to my ROOM"
A similar colloquv might have been heard at almost
any hotel bar last evening. A. J. Ditenhoeter, who
was to Albany by the Hotel Mems Association to
hurry through amendment to the Sunday excise law
by which hotel keepers will be permitted to sell wines
and liquors to guests and travellers, has not been as
al hoped and tor another Sunday tine In
depreciation OF the present law made by Corporation
Counsel LacomOe and enforced by the police will be IN
vogue. Tue hotel men just determined not to
break the law the police that 1t shall not be
broken and 1t will be impossible, therefore, get
sip OF stronger tban water the diningroom
the bar of any stcass hOstelry in this town to-
day. Not the plea OF sickness will DO regarded
by the resolnte proprietors, and ia order to make
dOubly sure, tue KEYS to the barroom and
Hlnecear will n many instances be lett in the hands
OF bartenders most OF whom are expected to spend
the day IN Jersey City or Hoboken. They certainly
holiday their iabors yesterday, for every
body who drinks seemed to beat filing himself
aud several bottles before midnight, and those who
did not think OF the bottles them reminded
OF the precautions necessary.
At AcKer, M-rrall Il Condts, Park g. Tiltord's and
other stores where vines and iudors sold in bulk
the cemand TOR bottled goods unprecedented, and
nearly every other man seen home bound in The
evated aud surface carried hi, hands nat
sied. oblong Package which was readily recognized
by the Initiated as the outward form OF the paste
board box conta OIng bottle.
In the districts OH the east and west sides
OF The city, where beer is staple beverage, there
" a an Unusually large - agr,wler' trade. Many of
the grogshOps had placards hung In their windows
and tneir bare upon which were printed the
words:
I" Get your liquor to-day"
"N i'll not open tomorrow"
Thus forewarne the denizens OF the ne.ghboi hood,
TO many OF wnom dinner without beer would be AS
unenoyabe u dance without music laid IN double
supLy OF their tavorite thirstguencner. as q rule
people drau hit beer to Tue bottled stun
ana th iefore took it home In pals and pitchers and
bottled u themselves in order to Keep the bead III
p ACC until tuey w're ready ~ use IT.
ruere were co nparativey few arrests Tor violation
OF the law last sunday, and II Is believed t0at
there will be even fewer to-day. Many Respectable
llquor-dealers nave sgniied their intention to use
every en0rt to keep all the barronms closed ana say
that thev will report the authorities all dealers
VINO do not abida strictly Oy the police regulations
Tn Ir object in dong this is to make tue Or sent law
so odiJus by making 1t impossible TO get drldk on
Sunday, that the Legislature will be forced by the
popu ar demand either to repeal or amend It.
wiihstanding the good WORK done by the police
last week, Superintendent Murray took occasion to
impre upon the police captains yesterday the I'M
pOrtance OF redouUlng their Efforts to-day he said
tua, IA tew places open last SUNDAY, and that
every one OF the sc mus, be watched carefully. tie
susges I'd also auysablity OF keepiug record oil
every gro s-shOp where the shades were not up and
tuli view OF the bar could not be obtained IRON the
street. There will be many detectives detailed
assist Captain Williams watching the big hotels
n bis precinct there last sunday, since he s
sutshPd that the proprietor, earnest when they
say that ney mean liquors TO their guests